Overcoming Obstacles & Creating Success

In this short e-book, business owner and mother of four children Colleen Mook provides six tested tips for balancing the challenges of daily life with the pursuit of goals and dreams. Through honest and heartfelt sharing of personal highs and lows--including building a successful business while raising a child with severe special needs--Colleen motivates and encourages others to identify and live the life they want. A quick read, this book will leave you with takeaways you can use right away and a renewed energy to move forward on whatever path you choose.

In this short e-book, business owner and mother of four children Colleen Mook provides six tested tips for balancing the challenges of daily life with the pursuit of goals and dreams. Through honest and heartfelt sharing of personal highs and lows--including building a successful business while raising a child with severe special needs--Colleen motivates and encourages others to identify and live the life they want. A quick read, this book will leave you with takeaways you can use right away and a renewed energy to move forward on whatever path you choose. After a successful career in reinsurance and the birth of her first child, Colleen started her personalized baby gift business, Baby Be Hip. A decade later, her life is a shining example of how to overcome challenges and create success. In the book, Colleen discusses the lessons she's learned through her experience raising a large family and an award-winning business at the same time. While it's never easy, it is possible. If you have ever wanted to pursue a dream but got derailed, it's not too late. If you find yourself wishing you could do more, or do better, you can. The building blocks that took Colleen years to learn and which she shares in this book--tools she uses in her own life as she balances hospital visits and TV appearances--will help you make the changes to get on your way. The 20 minutes you spend reading this book may change your life forever. It's time to up your game.

Colleen Mook is the Founder and CEO of Baby Be Hip, an online retailer of personalized baby and toddler gifts. Colleen established Baby Be Hip outside Philadelphia in 2002 after a successful early career working for General Reinsurance in New York and Philadelphia. A graduate of Villanova University and Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Colleen lives in Horsham, Pennsylvania with her husband, Brad, and their four children. In addition to raising her family and managing her responsibilities as CEO of Baby Be Hip, Colleen takes an active role in her community, advising, speaking and mentoring young women and aspiring entrepreneurs. She also speaks on her experiences with the special needs of her daughter Ellie and educating others about differences, respect and tolerance. Colleen is a co-founder of Sunshine Hope, an enterprise focused on empowering children to overcome challenges and become happy, fulfilled adults. Colleen regularly appears in the media and on conference panels. She and her business have appeared on the TODAY Show and Good Morning America as well as many regional television features, and in American Baby Magazine, Baby Talk Magazine, People Magazine, Child Style, and Essence Magazine. Colleen is a winner of several small business awards, including American Express OPEN and Count Me In’s Make Mine a Million $ Business, the Lifetime Mom’s Spark and Hustle Small Business Award, and Sam’s Club and SCORE Small Business Award.